At least one acid attack took place in London every single day in 2017 - an increase on a five-year-high the previous year.

Metropolitan Police revealed that last year there were 465 incidents recorded for attacks with a corrosive substance; nearly nine cases a week.

There were also 400 reported incidents where there was the threat to use a corrosive substance or possession of a corrosive substance.

This staggering new figure has topped the total for acid attacks in 2016, at 454, which was an increase by more than two and-a-half times the figure from five years previous, according to Acid Survivors Trust International.

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Acid attacks in London

The Met says it has put measures in place to tackle these types of crimes, including delivering a London-wide strategy, working to reduce the opportunity to buy the substances, and introducing a new joint control room protocol with the London Fire Brigade.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police added: "(The Met) is targeting offenders through intelligence analyses and has helped form a new service level agreement with the Crown Prosecution Service to increase the number of offenders being charged and convicted for carrying corrosive liquids on the street.

"All of the Met’s emergency police vehicles across London have been equipped with treatment kits and all of its officers are receiving extra training to help victims who have been physically attacked and give them first aid, which might be crucial to limiting injuries."

In light of the latest statistics, we've taken a look back at the year of 2017 and some of the reported cases of acid attacks.

465 acid attacks with a corrosive substance were recorded in 2017 (Image: Getty Images)

January

The beginning of 2017 saw police in Fulham launch an acid attack probe after a person reported that they were threatened with acid and a knife.

Officers were called to Wandsworth Bridge Road on January 18 and when they arrived they found that no one was hurt.

An Isleworth teenager was also put behind bars for his role in a "corrosive liquid" attack in Osterley which left a 17-year-old boy blinded in one eye.

Sekeria Abdikarim, 19, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment after bringing his victim to a park, before another person jumped out from the bushes and used a water pistol to spray corrosive liquid at his face.

Sekeria Abdikarim has been jailed for nine years after an acid attack left a teenager blinded in one eye (Image: Met Police)